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Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience

Comparative Perspectives on Latin American Immigrants During the Great Recession

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Editors:
  1. María Aysa-Lastra

    1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, USA

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  2. Lorenzo Cachón

    1. Departamento de Sociologia I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  • Provides a transatlantic comparative perspective
  • Provides an interdisciplinary dialogue on immigrant vulnerability and resilience
  • Analyses the effects of the global recession on mobile populations from Latin America
  • Covers analysis at the micro, meso and macro levels on international migration studies

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration (IPMI, volume 11)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Vulnerability and Resilience of Latin American Immigrants During the Great Recession

    • María Aysa-Lastra, Lorenzo Cachón
    Pages 1-21

  3. Effects of the Great Recession on Latin American Immigrant Labor

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Native and Latino Employment During the Great Recession in the US and Spain

      • Lorenzo Cachón, María Aysa-Lastra
      Pages 25-46

    3. Unemployment and Nonstandard Employment Among Natives and Latinos in the US and Spain

      • María Aysa-Lastra, Lorenzo Cachón
      Pages 47-65

    4. Latin American Women During the Great Recession in the US and Spain

      • Sonia Parella
      Pages 67-87

    5. How Are ‘the Others’ Doing? Highly Skilled Latin American Immigrants and Economic Crisis in the US and Spain

      • Cristina Bradatan, Neeraja Kolloju
      Pages 89-103

    6. Confluence of the Economic Recession and Immigration Laws in the Lives of Latino Immigrant Workers in the United States

      • Cecilia Menjívar, María E. Enchautegui
      Pages 105-126
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About this book

This book explores how the current sustained economic slow-down in North America and Europe has increased immigrant vulnerability in the labor market and in their daily lives. It details the ways this global recession has affected the immigrants themselves, their identities, as well as their countries of origin. The book presents an interdisciplinary dialogue as well as offer a transatlantic comparative perspective. It first focuses on the immediate effects of the Great Recession on immigrants’ employment. Next, it connects the experience of immigrants in the labor market with their experiences in the social arena in receiving societies. Coverage also explores the effects of the economic downturn on transnational practices, remittances and return of Latin American migrants to their countries of origin.

This volume will be of great interest to faculty and graduate students who are interested in international migration studies from the fields of sociology, economics, anthropology, geography, political sciences, and other social sciences. It will also be of interest to professionals and policy makers working on international migration policy and the general public interested on the topic.

Reviews

“Aysa-Lastra and Cachón’s book deepens our knowledge while broadening our understanding of the intersectional nexus of employment, migration status, and racialization. … a timely contribution to urgent discussions of immigrant vulnerability during times of economic crisis. Beyond Latin American and transatlantic specialists, it should be read by scholars of immigration and incorporation, labor economists, and policy-makers and service providers grappling with the experiences of immigrants in receiving societies.” (Timothy S. Gutierrez, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 45 (5), September, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, USA

    María Aysa-Lastra

  • Departamento de Sociologia I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Lorenzo Cachón

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience

  • Book Subtitle: Comparative Perspectives on Latin American Immigrants During the Great Recession

  • Editors: María Aysa-Lastra, Lorenzo Cachón

  • Series Title: International Perspectives on Migration

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14797-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14796-3Published: 10 April 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34876-6Published: 05 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14797-0Published: 31 March 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9805

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9813

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 272

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Migration, Population Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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